The newsreader said the presents would include "personal effects like my notepads – so he can see what my writing was like. Or the perfume he helped pick out for me earlier this year so he’ll remember my smell.”

Rachael Bland gave her son some important advice [Insatgram/ Rachael Bland]

The much loved radio presenter had been having chemotherapy since her diagnosis two years ago, and also underwent lymph node surgery in February – but biopsies showed her cancer was metastatic.

Heartbreakingly, Rachael revealed that she was out with her son when she was told the news.

Recalling the phone call telling her about her “incurable” disease, Rachael said: “My heart raced and I answered it, knowing a phone call did not bode well.

Rachael Bland said she wasn't scared of death [Instagram/ Eve Appeal]

"Then came the words ‘I am so sorry, it’s bad news. The biopsies have come back showing the same cancer is back and is in the skin.’

“I watched my little Freddie innocently playing away in a tyre in the barn and my heart broke for him.”

Speaking in The Sunday Telegraph last month, the radio star poignantly wrote: "I'm not scared of dying. I only fear for those I leave behind".